Variants

Accents

Some characters have accents (diacritical marks). The technical implementation can be very different. In this example, the é is a single glyph with its own Unicode value. The Thai character however is built out of 3 glyphs that are rendered on top of each other by using clever kerning values.

Invisible characters

Not all fonts feature all characters. If a not supported character is entered, BluffTitler does not try to find a replacement font (as Windows does), but instead renders nothing. This prevents shows from looking different on different machines because replacement fonts can be different. To fix invisible characters, choose another font family or character set (try Unicode or Default).

Latin, Greek and Cyrillic languages (LGC)

Dutch

Font family

Digs My Hart

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Greek

Font family

Roboto Bk

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Macedonian

Font family

Times New Roman

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Right to left languages (RTL)

Arabic

Font family

B Elham

Character set

Default

Kerning

metric

Reading order

RTL

Farsi

Font family

@Arial Unicode MS

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

RTL

Hebrew

Font family

Times New Roman

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

RTL

Urdu

Font family

@Arial Unicode MS

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

RTL

Indian languages

Hindi

Font family

Amita

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Malayalam

Font family

AnjaliOldLipi

Character set

Default

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Tamil

Font family

@Arial Unicode MS

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Telugu

Font family

Ramabhadra

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages (CJK)

In some fonts the characters are rotated 90°. This can be corrected by setting the Character rotation property of the text layer to (0,0,-90).

Chinese

Font family

HYLiLiangHeiJ

Character set

Default

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Japanese

Font family

@Arial Unicode MS

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Korean

Font family

210 HaneuljungwonOTF Bold

Character set

Default

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Southeast Asia languages

Khmer

Font family

Angkor

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Thai

Font family

@Arial Unicode MS

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Vietnamese

Font family

@Arial Unicode MS

Character set

Unicode

Kerning

metric

Reading order

LTR

Emoji

BluffTitler fully supports emoji characters in the text and scroller layers. All skin colours are supported, including alien green!

Emoji font

Emoji characters always use the same font, as set in the SETTINGS > Options... dialog.

The default font is Segoe UI Emoji that comes with Windows. Alternative fonts include Segoe UI Symbol and EmojiOne.

Mix with other fonts

The emoji characters can be mixed with other fonts in the same text layer, but make sure to use the Unicode or Default character set.

Mix with other effects

To make it possible to mix emoji characters with texts that use reflectionmapping or other effects, the emoji characters ignore the layer effect unless all characters are emoji characters or if the 1st texture is a colourmap.

Emoji size

The size and position of the emoji characters can be set with the Emoji property of the text and scroller layers.

Entering emoji

Entering Emoji characters works best in the MEDIA > Change text... dialog.

Left click on an emoji to add it to your text.

Right click on an emoji to replace it with your own picture.

Other ways to enter emoji include:

The Windows 10 touch keyboard: right click on the system tray and mark the Show touch keyboard button menu item.

The Windows 10 emoji picker: press the Windows key and . or ; at the same time.